Paul Valery Quotes

What A Pity To See A Mind As Great As Napoleon's Devoted To Trivial Things Such As Empires, Historic Events, The Thundering Of Cannons And Of Men; He Believed In Glory, In Posterity, In Caesar; Nations In Turmoil And Other Trifles Absorbed All His Attention ... How Could He Fail To See That What Really Mattered Was Something Else Entirely?

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